Web 2.0 Award Nominees

I chose to use this site and picked Biblio.com to explore. What a great site! I looked for a couple of children's books that were out of print as well as a few gardening books. The books were easy to search for and I liked the extra information listed about the book as well as sometimes information from the publisher. I also liked the sidebar options for ways to search for books I didn't know I wanted!

Google Labs

Oh, this was fun! I struck out comparing organic gardening and conventional gardening; Patricia Wells and Lidia Bastianich; dendrobium and cymbidium orchids. All of these searches had such low volume of traffic there wasn't a graph available to track them. I finally found a good match with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali. Lots of articles and traffic about both of them. I really liked the regions part of the graph where it showed that Batali had the most trend history in the US, particularly New York city. I liked the way I could see the search volume and the news reference volume and explore the articles that were highlighted with letters. A very useful tool for comparisons but not much use if your search terms don't register enough traffic for a graph.

Hoho with Zoho and Google Docs

I made spreadsheet documents with both Zoho and Google documents and I much preferred Zoho. It was much easier to figure out the spreadsheet capabilities and I liked the look of it much better. I definitely have some uses in mind for it to share documents with other librarians for my professional life and with gardeners in my home life.